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What is it all but luminous, notes from an underground man, Art Garfunkel

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What is it all but luminous

Art Garfunkel

notes from an underground man

From the golden-haired, curly-headed half of Simon & Garfunkel, a memoir (of sorts) -- moving, lyrical impressions, interspersed throughout a narrative, punctuated by poetry, musings, lists of resonant books loved and admired, revealing a life and the making of a musician. In "What Is It All but Luminous", Art Garfunkel writes about growing up in the 1940s and '50s, a middle-class Jewish boy, living in a redbrick semi-attached house on Jewel Avenue in Kew Gardens, Queens; of meeting Paul Simon, of their being twelve at the birth of rock'n'roll, of a demo of their song and the actual record going to #40 on the charts. He writes about their becoming Simon & Garfunkel, ruling the pop charts from the age of sixteen, about not being a natural performer but more a thinker; the hit songs; touring; about being an actor working with directors Mike Nichols, about choosing music over a PhD in mathematics. And he writes about his long-unfolding split with Paul, and how and why it evolved, and after; learning to perform on his own; and about being a husband, a father and much more

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